March 4th: "Smart Thermostats First, Smart Meters Later" Webinar (featuring IAMU)

Iowa's municipal utilities are building the smart grid using thermostats.

Stimulus funding has propelled numerous smart meter deployments by utilities across the country. In Iowa, however, an association of more than 100 municipal electric utilities has decided, instead, to first install programmable thermostats and offer dynamic pricing. The Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities' decision reflected its members' sense that installing thermostats with automated settings and offering dynamic pricing will have a less expensive but direct influence on shaving peak loads — prior to installing smart meters.

Join Intelligent Utility Daily editor-in-chief Phil Carson and Bob Haug, the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities' executive director, for an interactive discussion that will provide insight into the IAMU's business-based decision to tackle load management in its own fashion.

By attending you will:

• Gain insight from an association of more than 100 municipal electric utilities on how it tackled the smart grid challenge and leveraged its strength in numbers.
• Identify the steps the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities is taking to gain the short-term benefits of demand response, prior to widespread smart meter deployment.
• Learn how member utilities will manage the rollout of programmable thermostats and how they are engaging with their customers on the benefits of the program.
• Discover elements of the closer relationship that municipal utilities enjoy with their customers in the nation's heartland, which can be leveraged to smooth the path to a smarter grid.

Note: this event has passed.